Jansson

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Jansson is a Swedish patronymic surname, meaning "son of Jan", derived from Johannes, a cognate of John. There are alternate Belgian, German, Dutch, Danish, Latvian and Norwegian spellings. Jansson is rare as a given name.

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Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 86.2% of all known bearers of the surname Jansson were residents of Sweden, 5.1% of Finland, 2.9% of the United States and 1.7% of Norway.

In Sweden, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:199) in the following counties:

In Finland, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:1,893) in the following regions: [1]

Surname

Jansson
Origin
Word/name Scandinavian
Meaning"son of Jan"
Other names
Variant form(s) Janson, Jenson, Jansons/Jansone

Given name

Jansson
GenderMale
Other names
Variant form(s) Jan

Software

Jansson, a C language cross platform (including Unix, and Windows) package capable of encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data

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References

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